Chapter 119

It has been agreed that Liang Jinxi and his wife will come for dinner in the evening.

Brigade Commander Lu did not want to continue this topic with his wife at all.

…This was only the first day they met. His wife might just be envious of him going to college. The children were all in school, and she was bored and had a sudden idea.

Brigade Commander Lu showed his calmness at work and said, "Okay, let's talk about this later. Jinxi and his wife will come over later. Forget about this. Take good care of Jinxi and his wife, ask her if she needs any help, and let her adapt to life here..."

Originally, he wanted to get to know her better, and persuade her in time to support her husband's work and not hold Jinxi back... But seeing that his wife was being drugged, he could not say this for a while.

Upset.

Just as Brigade Commander Lu was upset, there was a noise from the gate.

It was Liang Jinxi and Lin Shu who came with their children.

Brigade Commander Lu and Teacher Ruan went out to greet them.

Liang Jinxi brought some things over, including salted pork, dried bamboo shoots and dried mushrooms brought from his hometown, and some picture books that Lin Shu brought to Teacher Ruan.

Everyone greeted Teacher Ruan and asked Lin Shu to sit down. She also pulled Zhenzhen's finger to show him a corner of the living room. There were two large boxes of toys of her son that she had specially found for Zhenzhen to play with.

Zhenzhen was immediately attracted to it.

Brigade Commander Lu asked Jinxi to play chess.

Lin Shu said to Teacher Ruan: "Sister-in-law, I'll come and help you."

Teacher Ruan took a look at her man and Lin Shu's man standing in the living room. Both of them were tall, and standing there seemed to block most of the main hall.

She smiled and said: "Okay, then come and help and talk."

It's no fun to keep her in the main hall, so why not come to the kitchen and talk with her.

She really likes talking to her.

Liang Jinxi glanced at them, and Lin Shu said, "Jinxi, I'll go to the kitchen, you play chess with Brigadier General Lu."

Liang Jinxi nodded, and watched them go to the kitchen before looking away.

Brigade General Lu's mouth sank.

... Jinxi used to be such a clean and neat young man. He never interfered in women's affairs, and was never ambiguous about matters between men and women. No matter how beautiful a girl was, he would never look at her. He was only focused on his work.

At that time, he still felt that he was not interested in women.

There was nothing wrong with this, and it would only help his career.

When he got older, he would find a gentle and virtuous wife, and that would be enough.

But when he was transferred back to Chengxi Military Region, he heard that he suddenly married a girl who was arranged by his family.

And the girl's background was not good... What kind of absurdity was this?

What era is this, and he is still following his parents to arrange a marriage!

Now he finally came to his senses.

What arranged marriage? It turns out that he was fascinated by the girl!

It was annoying.

Brigade Commander Lu was so upset that he rushed and played chess with murderous intent.

Liang Jinxi was the exact opposite of him. He was no longer as impatient and aggressive as he had been in the past few days. He remained calm, steady and strategic, and took every step carefully. As a result, when Teacher Ruan and Lin Shu finished cooking and brought out the dishes, Liang Jinxi had already won three games against Brigade Commander Lu.

Brigade Commander Lu's face turned green.

It was still early after dinner, so everyone was not in a hurry to go back, so they talked together.

At the same time, Brigade Commander Lu asked Liang Jinxi about the arrangements for Lin Shu's children when they went to Nanzhou to study at university.

When he heard that his mother came to Nanzhou to take care of him, he disagreed and said, "Old people don't like to leave their hometowns. Not to mention that your father is still in his hometown, what should he do if he asks her to come and take care of your wife and son? What should he do with all the things in his hometown? In our army, only the wife is left in the hometown to take care of the elderly and children. I have never heard of the elderly leaving their spouses and grandchildren in the countryside to take care of their daughters-in-law when their daughters-in-law go to college." Liang Jinxi felt that something was wrong with Brigadier General Lu. In fact, he felt that something was wrong with him when they were playing chess before. It was clearer now... He was emotional! He coughed lightly and said, "My mother is just worried and wants to come and see me.

How can I really let her suffer? I plan to ask an aunt to take care of Zhenzhen and my wife." Brigadier General Lu: ... He really takes care of his wife! Is your wife a capitalist lady? She still needs someone to take care of her! ... But recently, they are all rehabilitating and removing hats, and they are no longer doing the black five categories of feudalism, capitalism, and revisionism, so he didn't talk about it. He just said: "You are buying a house in Nanzhou City, and hiring someone to take care of your wife and children. Your wife is studying and not working. Can you take care of it financially?"

Although the allowance for the deputy regiment position is not small, it can't afford to spend so much.

After saying that, he frowned and said, "If you don't have the money to buy a house, take it from me."

Although he was dissatisfied, he was obviously unable to pull himself out of it when he saw his wife.

... It was annoying, but there was nothing he could do. All he could do in the short term was to make him have fewer worries.

Liang Jinxi smiled and said, "Well, no, the house has been bought."

At this time, Teacher Ruan, who had been talking to Lin Shu next to him, looked up.

She had been married to her husband for more than ten years. Couldn't she hear his dissatisfaction with Lin Shu in his words?

... What about the old man who came thousands of miles away and left his wife and grandchildren in the countryside to come and take care of his daughter-in-law, and what about hiring someone to take care of your wife and children? Oh, why do you care so much about how other couples live?

Teacher Ruan always respected her husband, but she didn't want to embarrass Lin Shu.

She glanced at Lin Shu, and Lin Shu shook his head and whispered, "Sister-in-law, we are not in financial difficulty."

She smiled at Lin Shu to comfort him, and then scolded her husband, "Limin, although Jinxi's wife went to school, she didn't stop working. She used to be a teacher while painting and writing books. Your military publishing house has published many sets of her picture albums and children's story books. Now several newspapers and publishing houses have asked her to write articles. Her salary is not low."

These are what Lin Shu just told her.

But the salary is not low, she added it herself.

Of course, the reason why Lin Shu told her this was not to show off.

It was at noon that Teacher Ruan saw Zhenzhen's picture album. It was not a revolutionary propaganda picture album, nor even a precious history textbook, but a picture album of some stories about the life of children in the mountains. They went up the mountain to pick fruits and went down the river to catch fish. In between, there were various small animals, conversations with small animals, and some simple truths. The colorful colors and cartoon images of children and animals were very interesting.

These are hard to find in bookstores.

Teacher Ruan is a primary school teacher. She deals with children all day long and lives in the mountains. She is naturally very interested.

She asked Lin Shu where she bought these, and Lin Shu told her that she had compiled them herself.

It was also inspired by her previous work as a teacher in a mountain base kindergarten and getting along with children every day. Many stories are actually stories of children in the family compound, and she just compiled them a little.

Lin Shu thought that Teacher Ruan had lived in the border for more than ten years and taught in a border primary school for more than ten years, so she had some ideas.

In the evening, she brought a few sets of picture albums to discuss with Teacher Ruan.

She thought that she might draw a set of border-style picture albums, or write some stories with border backgrounds. Especially since there are many ethnic minorities here, it would be very difficult to draw them.Unique... She has published more than a dozen books and picture albums with various themes. It is difficult to have unique new ideas now.

For Teacher Ruan, this is of course a new world.

One of them is like a stream full of rich content but in need of fresh inspiration, and the other is like a spring that has been lonely in the mountains for a long time but has a unique and fresh feeling. When they collide, sparks fly and they hit it off.

At this moment, Teacher Ruan heard her husband belittling Lin Shu, and she felt it was inappropriate.

Brigade Commander Lu felt like he was struck by lightning when he heard his wife's words.

The key is his wife's bright eyes and excited look. What's going on?

She would never refute herself in front of others before... She has always respected and even admired herself.

Brigade Commander Lu was speechless.

Liang Jinxi and Lin Shu looked at each other, paused, and suddenly said, "The house we bought there is quite big, right in the Nanzhou University staff quarters, it is a duplex two-story apartment building with a garden, and it is not expensive."

"I heard from my wife before that my sister-in-law also wants to apply to the university there, right? In this case, you can also consider buying a house there, Lu Lu. Although there are dormitories in the university, aren't Honggang and Hongliang also studying there? If you buy a house, they can live there on weekends. It is also now that the houses are being returned to those who have been delisted, otherwise it is difficult to buy them on weekdays. If you miss this opportunity, you will miss it."

Honggang and Hongliang are the two sons of Lu Brigade Commander and Teacher Ruan who are in junior high school at the Nanzhou Base Boarding School.

Lu Brigade Commander's face became even darker.

Is this going to end?

In the evening, Liang Jinxi and Lin Shu went back. Zhenzhen was still obsessed with the big cars and tanks of the Lu family and was reluctant to go home. Teacher Ruan smiled and said, "Tow one back and come back to play tomorrow."

Lin Shu reached out and knocked on Zhenzhen's little head. Zhenzhen, who was almost grinning with joy, immediately said, "Thank you, uncle and aunt, I will come back tomorrow when I come."

"You teach very well."

Teacher Ruan smiled, "The two naughty boys in our family only know how to fight all day long."

"This child is taught very well,"

Brigade Commander Lu rarely acknowledged an important contribution of Lin Shu, and then continued, "But one child is still too few, it would be more lively if there were more children. In fact, it's too late now. It's better to have several children of similar ages, so that they can grow up together while fighting, and the brotherhood will be better."

In short, why go to college? Once you go to college, it will be several years. Will you still have children?

...But as he was talking, he suddenly thought, well, let Jinxi work hard and let his wife get pregnant. If she is pregnant, why go to college?

Teacher Ruan: ...

For the first time in her life, she felt embarrassed because of her husband.

She pulled her husband's arm and smiled at Liang Jinxi and Lin Shu: "Okay, it's getting late, you should go back quickly, Jinxi's arm still needs to be patched, right? Don't delay it too late."

When everyone left and found her husband staring at her, Teacher Ruan realized that she had pulled her husband in front of others.

She coughed lightly, withdrew her hand, returned to her usual gentle expression, and smiled: "Okay, let's go back too."

On the other side, Lin Shu and Liang Jinxi returned to their own house. They glanced at their son who was still driving the car. Lin Shu was overjoyed and said: "You actually persuaded Brigadier General Lu to buy a house. Didn't you see his face? It's so funny. I didn't expect you to be so mean."

... No, she remembered that his mouth has always been so poisonous, but the two of them have lived together for a long time, but they don't feel it anymore.

As for letting Teacher Ruan buy a house in the family compound of Nanzhou University, Lin Shu actually thinks this is a good idea.

But this matter has not reached that step yet. Teacher Ruan must make up his mind to really decide to go to college.

Liang Jinxi said that before, obviously deliberately to make Brigadier General Lu unhappy.

Liang Jinxi reached out and patted his wife's head. How could he hear others belittling his wife and pretend nothing happened?

Even if it was a leader or a good brother, it wouldn't work.

Brigade Commander Lu has so much free time to take care of himself, so let him be busy.

*****

There is not much to do in the mountains. No matter whether Brigade Commander Lu is happy or not, the friendship between his wife and Lin Shu is getting warmer day by day.

Especially during the winter vacation of the school, whenever he and Liang Jinxi are not at home, either Lin Shu brings the children to his house to cook, talk, draw and edit books with his wife, or his wife goes to Liang's house... or does the same thing.

Sometimes there are other military officers' families in the border village. No matter whether these families have studied or not, they can be fooled by Jinxi's wife and follow her to fool around.

When there is no winter vacation, she also went to the border primary school, supposedly to give art classes to students.

The children in the border mountains go to school to learn practical skills, recognize words, learn to count, and not be blind. What's the point of her teaching those fancy things?

...It is said that after letting the children finish drawing, she also compiled and edited the stories and prepared to find a publishing house to publish them.

Brigade Commander Lu was shocked. Is that how she published those books and picture albums?

It is too much water!

These publishing houses let her do whatever she wants? !

...But considering her ability to fool people, it must not be difficult for her to fool the publishing house to publish her.

One day, Brigade Commander Lu returned home...These days, when he returned home, his wife was no longer like before. When she saw him coming back, she would happily come to greet him, take off his coat and greet him..

In fact, even if he went out for several days and didn't go home, his wife would be fine and not miss him at all.

When he went home that day and found the inner room, he saw his wife kneeling at the table busy with something.

On the table were paintings painted with strong colors, which were painted in a mess, but because of the bright colors, they could not be said to be ugly.

He coughed, and his wife looked up. Seeing him, she hurriedly put the paintings on the table carefully, and then turned back and smiled: "Limin, you are back? I am sorting out the students' paintings. Look, aren't they beautiful? I didn't expect that these children are so-so in studying, but they are so talented in painting."

Talent?

Brigade Commander Lu is simply blind.

Isn't it just taking a bunch of paint and painting randomly?

He snorted and said, "Is this what Jinxi's wife painted with her students? She really spent a lot of money on paint. I'm afraid these paints are enough to pay for the students' families' food for one or two months?"

Teacher Ruan glared at her husband. Why did he have such a big opinion about Jinxi's wife?

It's good to have so many people.

She is smart, beautiful, capable, and approachable. She can paint and chat with old farmers on the ridge of the field.

She said angrily, "What are you talking about? These pigments are not bought from outside. These are all ancient recipes that Jinxi's wife found herself. She brought students to dig bark, roots, flowers and plants in the forest, and even some natural pigments made of stones. Look, aren't the colors beautiful? Jinxi's wife said that in fact, the resources in the mountains are so rich that we can think of ways to make some things and sell them through the commune or school, so that we can also subsidize the students' families... You also know that these children are hungry every day, alas."

This way, not only does it not cost money to study, but it can also make money to supplement food rations. The villagers in the mountains will definitely be willing to send their children to school.

Brigade Commander Lu was dumbfounded.